Billy Idol > Quotes

“When there's nothing left to lose, and nothing else to prove, I'll be dancing with myself”
― Billy Idol

“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.”
― Billy Idol, Very Best of Billy Idol

“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”
― Billy Idol

“Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“Rebel Yell"

Last night a little dancer came dancin' to my door
Last night a little angel came pumping on the floor
She said "Come on baby I got a license for love
And if it expires pray help from above"
Because

In the midnight hour she cried- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried- "more, more, more"
In the midnight hour babe- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell- "more, more, more"
More, more, more.

She don't like slavery, she won't sit and beg
But when I'm tired and lonely she sees me to bed
What set you free and brought you to me babe
What set you free I need you here by me
Because

In the midnight hour she cried- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried- "more, more, more"
In the midnight hour babe- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell- "more, more, more"

He lives in his own heaven
Collects it to go from the seven eleven
Well he's out all night to collect a fare
Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair.

I walked the world with you, babe
A thousand miles with you
I dried your tears of pain, babe
A million times for you

I'd sell my soul for you babe
For money to burn with you
I'd give you all, and have none, babe
Just to, just to, just to, to have you here by me
Because

In the midnight hour she cried- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried- "more, more, more"
In the midnight hour babe- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried "more, more, more"
More, more, more.

Oh yeah little baby
She want more
More, more, more, more, more.

Oh yeah little angel
She want more
More, more, more, more.”
― Billy Idol

“always courting disaster to experience the biggest high. I’d been living the deranged life. I felt so nihilistic, yet why hadn’t I just tuned in and dropped out? Instead, I followed Jim Morrison’s credo, the credo of Coleridge and, at one point, Wordsworth, the credo of self-discovery through self-destruction I so willfully subscribed to until this moment:”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“You are going to be who you are. Might as well embrace it or forever be at the mercy of the human fears and trepidations of life that can devastate and drag us down.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip reading murder books tryin' to stay hip.”
― Billy Idol

“You have to believe in yourself even when others don't, or you won't achieve anything.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing With Myself

“(I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me.”
― Billy Idol

“The English poet Alexander Pope said, “An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“In Rochester, New York, I was accused of “sexual deviancy,” so I attended the pretrial hearing in a Vivienne Westwood tartan plaid suit that featured penis-and-balls buttons that blended in so well you would have had to really look hard to see them. No one noticed, and I denied being a “sexual deviant,” but indeed that was exactly what they had on their hands. In this case, I was trying to get a girl out of my hotel room by saying she could only stay if she made it with the other girl I’d let in, who just happened to be younger and better-looking. When she wouldn’t, and why not I don’t know, I told her to leave and ended up throwing her out of the room, which was a mistake. I should have called the road manager. Later I would have a security guard, but back then I was on my own. The girl’s case was thrown out, but the fact is, I should have known better.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again.”
― Billy Idol

“Benjamin Franklin once offered advice to his fellow revolutionaries: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“I had been living as if there were no tomorrow, and had nearly made that a reality.”
― Billy Idol

“As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing With Myself

“THIS DREAM OF LIFE BEGAN with my first friends, my mum and my dad.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“Coral”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“Sometimes you had to not give a fuck what others thought or you'd never do anything to advance yourself.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing With Myself